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AIBUs from parents of fictional children

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ProudAS · 13/08/2013 18:31

AIBU to be concerned about what DCs are up to? Since we moved to Yorkshire they've been hanging around the railway line most days and not made friends with the local children.

DS came home with a bag of coal which he said was "mined" and whilst he looked like he'd been down a coal mine I suspect it was stolen.

And then there's the station porter who seems to be getting very friendly with them - he's a nice man by all accounts but I can't help feeling suspicious.

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ZutAlorsDidier · 13/08/2013 21:23

AIBU unreasonable to think my MIL or DH could get my children some new toys? the dds just play in a stream (which I am sure is not safe) with nets made of old stockings, and all the baby has is a teddy, and a ball. All day that is all he sees, every minute of the day. Money is tight, we don't even have a bathroom and everyone bathes in a tin tub. But surely the least they could do is get my poor little baby a VTech something or other, or a little Leapfrog tablet.

FairPhyllis · 13/08/2013 21:24

AIBU to be concerned about our son and his wife's capability to run the family farm?

Our son, who is so easy-going he is practically horizontal (except where badgers are involved), is quite possibly the least competent dairy farmer in the village (and there's some competition). His wife - a jumped-up work experience student who I should have seen coming - is a terrible farmer's wife too. She doesn't cook properly and was looking suspiciously intimate with the cowman at some point. I suspect that between they will run the business into the ground.

AIBU to regret not having sold the farm to a property developer?

BlazinStoke · 13/08/2013 21:26

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StanleyLambchop · 13/08/2013 21:27

Chateau- you need to speak to Grabber Major- he is the power behind Grimes as any fule kno. Also, keep your Ds's away from that Fotherington-Thomas (hello sky, hello clouds) he is deeply evil! Trust me, those innocent blonde curls hide a warped, warped mind!

SalaciousBCrumb · 13/08/2013 21:27

The HV has told me that I need to restrict DS' food intake (he's less than a week old, for heavens sake!). Yesterday he had a piece of chocolate cake, an icecream, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, salami, a lollipop, a cherry pie, a single sausage, a cupcake, a whole slice of watermelon (that's fruit isn't it?). I think I should just tell her he's a growing boy and it's just a stage he's going through. WWYD?

WilsonFrickett · 13/08/2013 21:37

My DM has always been a bit desperate to meet someone since my dad died. She's now met this widow and moved in to his house with me and my sister. We think it's too soon - he can't possibly have got over his wife yet.

Anyway, he has a daughter - my SS I suppose - who is just weird. She's like really house-proud, spends all her time cooking and cleaning, she's obsessed with cleaning out the fire fGS. She doesn't care about her clothes either. We hate hanging out with her, but now she's been invited to this huge party on Saturday night. Wibu to hide her invite? She's nothing to wear so she'd just show us up, and I've got my eye on the host...

KeatsiePie · 13/08/2013 21:37

AIBU to think my youngest DD is ungrateful? Just told my 3DDs I'm going to retire and divide my entire estate (well kingdom really but not a stealth boast) between them, with most of it going to whichever one of them loves me the most. I thought this was quite fair but DD3 is objecting. I'm gutted as she's always been my favorite and I wanted to make her my chief beneficiary, I was planning to live with her and her fiance once they're married and moved into the castle. Think I'm going to disinherit her but am I being too harsh?

wanderings · 13/08/2013 21:37

My DS is a dear little boy, and I love him just as he is. However, he gets into mischief every single day, except when he is ill. On 28th July his fever had gone down so much, that his doings filled several pages of my book. But on 3rd November he was so very, very naughty, that all the people in the village came round with wads of cash, saying "maybe there's enough there to send him to America". My maid even had the nerve to say "but why should we plague the Americans with your DS?"

AIBU to

  • have flung the money all over the place;
  • to lock my DS in the toolshed whenever he gets into mischief;
  • to continue to record all his misdeeds in an exercise book, so that when he grows up he will understand why I have become grey-haired. Perhaps he will then love me all the more, since his childhood pranks will have caused it.
SunnyIntervals · 13/08/2013 21:40

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ProudAS · 13/08/2013 21:41

Forgot to mention: AIBU to be slightly miffed at DCs receiving awards for saving train from landslide? I don't doubt that they prevented an accident but they ventured onto line, DD1 was in its path and just feet away when it stopped and I dread to think what could have happened had the driver braked a second or so later.

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Lweji · 13/08/2013 21:50

WABU to throw out of the window some beans my DS brought home instead of money this morning after taking our last cow to the market?

Or should I have put them on toast?

Didactylos · 13/08/2013 21:51

IABU to be at the end of my tether with all this?

I have lots of children, and our accomodation is far from adequate, its not even a proper house
Theyve been driving me mad today, theyre making me old before my time and I think Im losing it - I cant even count them all any more. I tried to get tough with them tonight, told them no bread with their soup but when they argued I just lost it, Im so ashamed, but I ended up hitting them and told them to get to their beds

I just dont know what to do Sad

MrsMook · 13/08/2013 21:51

AIBU- I had an affair 12 yrs ago with a politician and had a DD by him. I'll admit I wasn't interested in the idea of motherhood at the time as I'm very career focused. There was a fight between ExDP and he ended up killing my husband. Being an influential man he escaped a prison sentence, had his land confiscated and got away with taking custody of DD who he then left in the care of his university.

I put the past behind me and carried on with my career. I'm now head of the General Oblation Board, an experimental theological organisation using pre-pubescent children and testing them for the effects of Dust. This work has stirred up some maternal instincts, and I'm concerned about DD's welfare especially as I hear rumours that she's not being raised with boundaries and is ferral (Apparently she regularly has mud fights, gets drunk in crypts and sinks Gyptian boats).

WIBU to take her back into my care while ExDP is out of the country on an expidition? Should I tell her who I am or pretend that she should be my assistant?

hardtostayfocused · 13/08/2013 21:52

DH wants us to up sticks and move 100s of miles to do an eco-build in the prairie. We have 2 DDs and I've heard the primary schools aren't all that. IHBU?

LondonMother · 13/08/2013 21:53

AIBU to let my children live a mostly outdoor life all summer long? DD1 is exceptionally sensible and DS1 is nearly 13, so I have felt no qualms about letting them go off in their dinghy with DD2 and DS2 for weeks at a time, building fires and cooking their own food. FFS, I made sure that DS2 learned to swim during their first camping trip so if he fell into the lake he'd stand some chance of not drowning! DH is no help as he is abroad with work and texted BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN - bloody autocomplete!

rumbleinthrjungle · 13/08/2013 21:54

AIBU to have reported my dd's new boarding school to OFSTED? Their brochure was all about their splendid language and skiing opportunities, but she keeps getting sent to have compulsory tea with some batty wench who lives at the end of the garden and has a Princess Leia complex and about fifteen children, most of whom are prefects/head girls/staff and/or nuns.

The head injury, falling in lakes and TB statistics for the school are horrifying but the school swore it only happened to the red heads/head girls/nuns?

ParkerTheThief · 13/08/2013 21:55

AIBU to let DD2 leave school and run the family farm?

Obviously DH and DS1 and 2 can't because they are in the navy.

As well as solving the farm problem it will mean one less set of school fees to pay as there will only be DD1 at Oxford and the younger 4 at boarding school.

wanderings · 13/08/2013 21:56

Proudas - YANBU at all! Children should not be on the railways. When you and I were kids, they read us the kindergarten rhyme:

"Piggy on the railway, picking up stones;
along came an engine and broke piggy's bones.
'Oh!' said Piggy, 'that's not fair!'
'Oh!' said the engine driver, 'I don't care!'"

But you know what? We have been told we're not allowed to say that rhyme any more, because these days, Network Rail would be sued for not protecting the railway from wandering kids, so people are laughing at the railway.

And do you know what the final straw is???? My DS and another climbed into the cab of an engine, set it going, then jumped out!!! A huge expensive operation was needed to stop the runaway train crashing into the one which David Cameron happened to be on (a token publicity stunt; he never goes by train!), necessitating the shutdown of the entire railway network! My family is now the laughing stock of the Daily Fail, and my DS is boasting on FB about his shiny new ASBO!!!! In my day, his father would have walloped him soundly.

It's not fair!!!!!!!!!!!

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 13/08/2013 21:57

Well it will doubtless work for two terms, parker, and save you buying a new tunic, so go for it: you can always spend the savings on some horses if it works out well!

reallyslummymummy · 13/08/2013 21:57

A bear from Peru has just moved into our house. Not sure where he came from. DS said he found him at paddington train station. The bear has already got through a whole loaf of bread and a pot of my favourite seville thick cut orange marmalade.

How do I get rid of him?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 13/08/2013 21:58

AIBU to let my four children go off and camp on an island in the middle of the lake, in a couple of makeshift, homemade tents, and spend the summer messing around in a boat? They can all swim, apart from the youngest, but it would be fine to let the other children teach him, wouldn't it?

kim147 · 13/08/2013 21:59

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 13/08/2013 21:59

Dammit - x-posted with LondonMother - grrrrrr!

ParkerTheThief · 13/08/2013 22:00

nit You are right.
Mind you DD1 has been acting oddly, she hasn't been in touch for ages and I hope she hasn't made any silly decisions.

LondonMother · 13/08/2013 22:04

AIBU to be incandescent with rage over the behaviour of my DSC who has destroyed a valuable ring which was I won fair and square in a riddle competition many years ago? Apparently it's been cast into a volcano at the culmination of some kind of adventure holiday. He won't talk about it and is in fact behaving very oddly. We were due to go together to the west on a spa holiday with some alternative types I met a few years back, but I'm not sure now...